Yuan T. Lee – 1986
Yuan Tseh Lee, born on November 19, 1936, is a chemist from Taiwan. He is currently a Retired Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1986, he became the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.
- Lee received the Nobel Prize along with John C. Polanyi and Dudley R. Herschbach for their contributions to understanding how chemical processes work.
- Lee’s research mainly focuses on using advanced chemical techniques to study and change how chemical reactions happen.
- From January 15, 1994, to October 19, 2006, Lee was the leader of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan.
- In 2011, he was chosen to lead the International Council for Science.
- Chemistry aims to study how materials change, where the speed of chemical reactions is very important.
- Scientists who study chemical reactions look at how fast they happen and how they change over time.
- Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius made big steps in understanding how fast reactions happen.
- Chemical reactions are basically when atoms and molecules move and change during a collision.
- Lee’s research focused on controlling the energy of chemicals, understanding how molecules are positioned affects reactions, and finding out complex reaction steps.
- He used a special technique called “crossed molecular beams” to study how chemicals react.
- Lee’s work helped me understand how reactions happen better, especially in controlling reaction energy and finding out how reactions work.
List of Chinese Nobel Laureates
List of Chinese Nobel Laureates: Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee are the first Chinese Nobel Laureates. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957 for their incredible contribution to the field of Physics.
Chen Ning Yang is generally considered the first Chinese Nobel Laureate individually. There are around 12 Chinese (including Chinese-born) who won the Nobel Prize to date.
In this article, we are going to discuss the Chinese Nobel Laureates’ Republic of China (Taiwan), the People’s Republic of China, and those people who have a cultural or ethnic connection to China in detail.